René Morére

1907-1942
Born 16 May 1907, in Paris; died 26 December 1942, in Castillon (Ariège).

Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, engraver, draughtsman. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, figures, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, interiors with figures, landscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes.

Morère's paintings were more Expressionist than intellectual in spirit. His canvases, with powerful colouring and violently thick paint, showed scenes of daily life in Paris, such as Scene in a Café and Undergrowth at Etréchy with Two Lovers (both 1932).

Morère regularly took part in public exhibitions in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne. Other exhibitions include: 1939, Museum of Modern Art Gallery in Washington; 1940, Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh; and 1961, Salon Terre Latine in Paris.

He showed his works in private exhibitions: from 1926 to 1933 at the Salle Pétron in Pau; 1933, Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris; 1934-1959, Galerie Cazalis at Pau; 1933 and 1939, Galerie Jeanne Castel in Paris; 1943, retrospective in the Salle Pétron at Pau.

Posthumous exhibitions include: 1942, 1944, 1945, Galerie Jeanne Castel in Paris; from 1959, Galerie Vendôme in Paris; 1978, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire at St-Denis; and 1981, Musée Goya de Castres.